Chris' prayer: Steven Curtis Chapman's "Burn the Ships"

The other day, I went through my collection of T-shirts, looking for ones that I hadn't worn in awhile, or didn't quite like so much anymore, or just didn't need. I ended up picking out nine shirts and put them in my pile to give to Goodwill. That brought me down to 23 T-shirts that I had worn in awhile, did like a lot, or felt like I needed to hold onto.

This theme, of paring down, is something that I have to visit often in my small place. What do I really need, and what can I get by without? I still feel like 23 T-shirts is a ton, but I'm having trouble getting rid of any of those that are left. They all seem to have some significance to them. But I'm working on paring down.

I feel like that is what this song is about, too. What do we need in our lives? What can we do without? At what point am I ready to say, alright, I only need X T-shirts, no matter how hard that will be to get down to? At what point in my faith am I ready to say, alright, it is time to leave those old ways behind? I feel like that point is coming…


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